Federal officials plan to require that freight railroads operate trains with two-person crews.(WSJ)
A measure of U.S. factory activity turned positive in March for the first time in 17 months, as measures for new orders and production expanded sharply. (MarketWatch)
South Korea’s exports grew for a sixth consecutive month in March. (WSJ)
Construction spending in the U.S. slipped 0.3% in February. (MarketWatch)
Chinese automaker BYD’s first-quarter sales of electric vehicles and plug-ins rose 13%. (WSJ)
The parent of discount e-commerce star Temu uses extensive and aggressive noncompete agreements to limit the hiring of a wide swath of its workers. (WSJ)
Daimler Truck Holding and Volvo will face a retrial in a $603 million price-fixing case in Germany. (Bloomberg)
The Teamsters union authorized strike votes by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City engineers and conductors amid protracted contract talks. (Trains)
Container lines are on track to increase capacity on Asia-U.S. lanes to the highest level in 17 months in May. (Journal of Commerce)
New network operations under the major shipping alliances appear to leave the Port of Hong Kong with sharply diminished business. (Splash 247)
QatarEnergy took its landmark liquefied natural gas tanker fleet past 100 vessels with charter contracts for 19 ships. (TradeWinds)
Alibaba is working with startup Space Epoch to test delivery of cargo anywhere in the world within an hour using a rocket. (South China Morning Post)
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